Community Water System · PWSID NH2391010

Sanbornville Water Dept

Serves 1,425 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentSanbornville, New Hampshire
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead and Copper Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2003: 25 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 16 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-08-20.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
16Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% of active water systems in New Hampshire. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Notice or report: 22003 · Notice or report: 22004 · Missed or late test: 22004 · Missed or late test: 220052006 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22010 · Missed or late test: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 120202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 164% missed or late test · 1632% notice or report · 8

Across New Hampshire, 37% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

What you can do

  • Lead: Run cold water for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using it for drinking or cooking, especially after the water has been sitting for several hours. Use only cold water for cooking and baby formula. Consider a water filter certified to remove lead (look for NSF/ANSI Standard 53 certification). Have your water tested if you live in an older home.

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-07-06Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-08-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-07-06Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationOpen
  3. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2018-11-22E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2014-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2014-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2013-09-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2013-07-17E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2010-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2008-10-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2008-03-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2006-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  22. 2004-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  23. 2004-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  24. 2003-10-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2003-09-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,425
Service connections410
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySanbornville
EPA ZIP on file03872

Areas served

  • Wakefield, Carroll County

Reading this record

Sanbornville Water Dept is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,425 people in Sanbornville, New Hampshire. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.